“This is an enormous week for Speaker Kevin McCarthy and House Republicans,” Punchbowl News reports.
“The federal government will shut down in 13 days unless Congress greenlights more funding. And House Republicans are pushing a partisan stopgap spending bill that won’t go anywhere in the Senate and will fall on deaf ears in the White House.
It seems doubtful McCarthy can even pass it in first place.”“There will also be a critical visit to Capitol Hill by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell have already announced Zelensky will attend an “all senators” meeting on Thursday morning. McCarthy will have to figure out how to handle an enormously sensitive issue that has split House Republicans.”